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portrayed in the Allen
segment.
One cannot help but
speculate about what
messages Allen is managing
to convey to us as American
Jews and to the society as a
whole. On one hand, Mother
is offering warnings to
American Jews about chang-
ing their names and consider-
ing intermarriage. She is the
keeper of the ethnic faith and
messenger against assimila-
tion. But she does her pro-
selyting in such an overbear-
ing manner that her ap-
proach outweighs her
message. One cannot help but
view her good intentions in a
negative comical way.
If one looks at recent films
and the image of the Jewish
women in them, one is left
with the same one dimen-
sional character — the
screaming and/or domineer-
ing pestering woman who
drives her offspring crazy. In
Crossing Delancey the match-
maker is loud and obnoxious;
even adorable bubeleh is in-
terfering as she decides to
marry off her granddaughter.
In Beaches, Lainie Kazan
plays a pushy and loud stage
mother. In Torch Song Trilogy
the Anne Brancroft character
is always yelling at her son
for being gay and making her
suffer. One cannot blame just
Jewish men for perpetuating
the stereotype since the
scripts for Crossing Delancey
and Beaches were both writ-
ten by women.
The big problem with this
continual stream of Jewish
mother screen caricatures is
that American Jewish women
are being forced into an im-
age rut. What is a Jewish
woman to do? If we buy into
our celluloid role in life all we
have to look forward to is be-
ing obnoxious, controlling
mothers once we settle down
and have children. No wonder
the Amy Irving character in
Delancey was reluctant to
date the pickle man. She was
probably worried she would
wind up as a shrill prune.
And why would Jewish men
want to date and marry a
Jewish woman if she will only
develop into this horror?
Worst of all this stereotype is
continually being used in the
society as a basis for anti-
Semitic jokes and ethnic
labeling.
Other minority groups have
protested and tried to change
their negative images on the
screen. It appears that the
traditional depiction of Afro-
Americans are progressing
better than Jews. The Bill
Cosby Show has been hailed
as presenting a more positive
image about Afro-Americans.
Ironically enough, the
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